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To: greenspirit who wrote (132798)	8/16/2005 4:43:26 AM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 793895

Can you imagine what WW2 would have been like if our media spent this kind of attention on a single "grieving mother" story? They did. Then they were gold star mothers and it was recognized that they had lost a son fighting a noble cause. Unlike now (in some quarters).

To: greenspirit who wrote (132798)	8/16/2005 10:25:02 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

Why is this one mother getting so much of your air time when literally hundreds of mothers and fathers with the exact opposite point of view have received nearly zero coverage. CB has asked that from the beginning of Sheehan's saga. WHY so much coverage??? All sorts of reasons, but IMO the biggest one is that the media wants to use her as a poster child for the anti-war movement. It would certainly be interesting to know where she was and what she was doing in the 1970's. But now, the biggest thing to know is how much did Michael Moore and moveon pay her to do this stunt? She is a very disturbed woman. Fox is the only station who has had any of the parents of sons or daughters who have been killed in the war on.... In the bigger universe, Fox still is small, CNN is the giant, and CNN continues to tell the world how terrible America is. CNN is in hotels world wide, in the airports, everywhere.... Eason Jordan is but a symbol of CNN disdan for the US.